Principal Data Scientist

Job ID: 2917943
Job date: 2017-09-03
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Company : General Electric 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
We are looking for a Data Scientist to work with key Artificial Intelligence(AI), Deep Learning(DL) Clinical Partnership accounts to assist and build deep learning algorithms using imaging and non imaging data. This individual will work with customer clinical data scientists and interface with internal GE software and data science teams to deliver high quality software in a fast paced, challenging, and creative environment

Essential Responsibilities :

  • Contribute to technical teams (customer and GE) in development, deployment and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics capabilities
  • Be a thought leader and guide clinical data science at key customer partnerships – data strategy, labeling techniques, annotation and curation methodologies
  • Be an expert in industry wide available best in class open source tool stacks and integrate work done at a customer site into GE environment
  • Assist in building self-learning systems that can assist in medical diagnosis and move to predictive results based on multi parametric data sets (imaging, non imaging like EMR and wave form)
  • Work with the engineering team to incorporate your analyses and solutions, including working with the visualization team to create intuitive UI and rich UX stories. Partner with data engineers on data quality assessment, data cleansing and data analytics efforts
  • Provide guidance to data collection teams on test protocols including design of experiments, sample size, and statistical distributions.
  • Design and implement scene labeling techniques for medical images, Design and implement image preprocessing and alignment algorithms, Hyper parameter optimization
  • Demonstrate algorithms meet accuracy requirements on general subject population through statistical analyses and error estimation
  • Write technical reports summarizing development, analysis, training and validation of the algorithms
  • Stay up-to-date in the field of machine . Apply new technologies in development of product
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% to multiple customer sites

Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or equivalent field with a minimum of 2 years applicable professional experience; OR MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or equivalent field with a minimum of 5 years applicable professional experience; OR a BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or equivalent field with a great proven track record with a minimum of 8 years applicable professional experience

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
  • Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen
  • Must be willing to travel to attend meetings, workshops, conferences & etc.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

  • Have completed graduate-level coursework in statistics
  • Experimental design experience
  • Technical proficiency in languages such as R, Python, C++, Java, etc.
  • Experience with medical imaging analysis leveraging methodologies using GPUs
  • Hands-on advanced proficiency in handling and analyzing large data sets such as medical imaging data.
  • Extensive experience with neural network libraries such as Caffe, Keras, Tensorflow, Torch etc.
  • Expertise in broader machine techniques
  • Excellent written communication, verbal communication and presentation skills are required.
  • Experience with big data technologies and HPC such as the Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Hbase etc.
  • Experienced with the information technology aspects of data collection, organization, and integration
  • knowledge in optimal computational environment required for data processing, data mining and machine
  • Software applications development experience
  • Experience working with biomedical non-imaging data
Business Acumen:
  • Understands the competitive landscape, regulatory marketing, etc.
  • Articulates clearly the main industry dynamics. Demonstrates awareness of important current trends (economic, political, environmental, regulatory, etc.) affecting the industry
Leadership:
  • Have participated in competitions (e.g., Kaggle)
  • Experienced in writing peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts
  • Uses teamwork skills to achieve goals, solve problems, and manage conflict. Understands individual differences
  • Systematically breaks problems into component parts. Identifies a successful solution and quantifies the associated risks/outcomes of the solution
Personal Attributes:
  • Can ask appropriate questions needed to translate an abstract problem into a quantifiable analysis for identifying solutions. Seeks out processes and ideas that are out of the norm.
  • Identifies when additional information is needed from customer/manager and ask cogent and relevant questions to obtain it.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen


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About Us:

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry. GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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